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10 best books like Crackling Mountain and Other Stories (Osamu Dazai): Fires on the Plain, Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories, The River Ki, Japanese Gothic Tales, On Parole, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan, The Paper Door and Other Stories, The Word Book, The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

Fires on the Plain
AuthorShōhei Ōoka
ISBN0804813795
"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." —The New York Times

**Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize**

This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set...
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories
AuthorTaeko Kōno
ISBN0811213919
"A sense of unease permeates this disturbing and exceptional collection of stories centered on unhappy women in postwar Japan...," wrote Publishers Weekly. World Literature Today proclaimed: "Reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’s works, Kono’s stories explore the dark, terrifying...
The River Ki
AuthorSawako Ariyoshi
ISBN4770030002
The River Ki, short and swift and broad like most Japanese rivers, flows into the sea not far south of Osaka. On its journey seaward, it passes through countryside that has long been at the heart of the Japanese tradition. And it flows too past the mountains and the villages, past the dams, ditches and rice...
Japanese Gothic Tales
AuthorKyōka Izumi
ISBN0824817893
Resisting the various forms of realism popular during the Meiji enlightenment, Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) was among the most popular writers who continued to work in the old-fashioned genres of fantasy, mystery, and romance. Gothic Tales makes available for the first time a collection of stories by...
On Parole
AuthorAkira Yoshimura
ISBN0156011476
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology...
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
ISBN0520241827
In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent allure of this entertainment district, where beggars...
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0804801843
"Five charming novellas...which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today...
The Paper Door and Other Stories
AuthorNaoya Shiga
ISBN0231121571
No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. "The Paper Door and Other Stories" showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some of Shiga's stories "among the most brilliant...
The Word Book
AuthorMieko Kanai
ISBN1564785661
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction—the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things...
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
AuthorKenji Nakagami
ISBN1880656396
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his...
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
AuthorJohn L. Apostolou
Most Americans would describe Japanese science fiction with one word: Godzilla. However, true fans of the genre know that for decades, Japan has been turning out some of the most innovative stories ever published. Unfortunately, those that make it into English are often difficult to find. The Best...
The Gourmet Club
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN4770029721
The decadent tales in this dazzling collection span forty-five years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965).

Tanizaki's major novels-Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Key, for example-have already appeared...
Wayfarer
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0399506128
Despite the surface fact that not a lot really happens, I was quite engrossed by this book. The tone is fairly unchanging throughout, there's not a ton of excitement, the characters aren't always very likable, and it can be pretty depressing sometimes, but for me this didn't detract from the overall...
The Broken Commandment
AuthorTōson Shimazaki
ISBN0860081915
Espeluznante, a la par que bellísima, imagen de uno de los lados de la sociedad nipona que menos nos gusta considerar: su clasismo y su racismo, representado en esta ocasión en el trato que se da a los "etas", o miembros de castas inferiores.
Toson, en la estela de Zola, nos da una visión de Japón...
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN4770028938
When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English....
Child of Fortune
AuthorYūko Tsushima
ISBN4770015240
By conventional Japanese standards, Koko Mizuno is an abysmal
failure as woman, wife, and mother--and she couldn't care less. She has succeeded in remaining true to herself in a stubborn struggle against powerful conformist pressures. Yet her resistance is largely passive.Self-absorbed,...
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories
AuthorYumiko Kurahashi
ISBN0765601583
This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author's literary production, ranging from parodies of classical Japanese...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
ISBN1604247487
"Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" is a compilation of 27 sketches on Japanese culture, of which 10 appeared initially in publications such as the Atlantic Monthly intended for the general American public. The pieces are tremendously charming and cover a wide range of topics including Shinto, Buddhism...
The Counterfeiter and Other Stories
AuthorYasushi Inoue
ISBN0804832528
3.5 stars. This little book of short stories is elegant and sweet. The stories aren't very captivating in themselves, but they way they are written is what keeps you captivated. The focus is introspective, mostly on thoughts, feelings, symbols, and themes. The beauty of the writing is shown in the intelligent...
Five by Endo
AuthorShūsaku Endō
ISBN0811214397
Five wonderful stories by the Japanese master. Winner of every major Japanese literary prize, his work translated around the globe, Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a great and unique figure in the literature of the twentient century. "Irrevocably enmeshed in Japanese culture, he is by virtue of his religion...
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